to the neighborhoods and the third is, we have to build trust with law enforcement, again. >> thank you. that's a biggie, for everyone. thank you very much, we gotta go. the 5 is next. respiratory rhonchi >> jesse: i'm jesse watters with juan williams, greg gutfe greg gutfeld, shannon bream, and kennedy. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." huge day of news from the white house. president trump said to hold another coronavirus briefing moments from now. earlier today the president taking action to address surging violence and chaos in cities. it comes as 15 people were injured in a drive-by shooting in chicago. the city's mayor now finally willing to accept help from president trump while murders surged by 50% from last year. the president announced he's authorizing federal agents

already working in u.s. cities to help local police fight crimes. >> this bloodshed must end. no mother should ever have to cradle her dead child in her arms simply because politicians refused to do what is necessary to secure their neighborhood and to secure their city. murderers and violent criminals are breaking a wide range of federal laws. we have that. it's as wide as it can be. we will find them, arrest them, and prosecute them. they will be in jail for many years to come. >> jesse: and portland protesters continuing to clash with federal agents. department of homeland security says it will not retreat while democrats like nancy pelosi compare them to nazi stormtroopers. the trump administration hitting back. >> i am disgusted. so far this year, just cdp alone, we've lost ten personnel. ten and the line of duty.

for her to refer to those men and women as stormtroopers, that is -- it's absolutely disgusting. it's reckless and it's untrue. >> jesse: all right, shannon, the language liberals are using to describe federal law enforcement officials absolutely disgraceful. they are there to just arrest anarchists, protect federal property, stop illegal gun trafficking, and now they are compared to nazis. just disgusting. >> shannon: yeah and they are super frustrated. they are on the front lines trying to protect and save lives. you have congressman bobby rush, democrat from illinois, they have massive problems. this is what he said today, though the president wants to instigate a race war "he wants to have black folks fighting white folks we can rise up and say i'm the real grand wizard of the ku klux klan and i'm the president. reelect me." the accusations are incredible. when it's politicized, gets away from people like the ones we saw

today at the white house with the president to our family members of these victims. the mother, absolutely heartbreaking. when americans see her and hear her story, it's tough to watch it without getting choked up. the 4-year-old, described, he fought back against open-heart surgery when he was four months old. he saw the man talking when his wife jackie was ambushed and killed in albuquerque. there's got to be personal and i think the president was smart to have those folks out there because of your watching it regarding is of what party, no party, your heart has to break for the situations that shouldn't be turning into a situation where we are demonizing federal agents and accusing people of being nazis for wanting to instigate a race war. >> jesse: juan, i know you do not agree with that kind of language used against american law enforcement. >> juan: in this case, i think this is a pure political play. trumpets trying to change the

conversation. >> jesse: no, no, juan. no. >> juan: jesse, you went on and on. you went on and on. can i speak. what you have is trump, i'm telling you this president is trying to change the conversation away from his failed handling of a coronavirus. i am telling you it's the same tactic he used before 2018 when he was telling people that ate caravan, threatening caravan was coming across the border and that was the real problem. >> jesse: you're dodging the question. >> juan: i'm not. i am answering. >> jesse: i want to hear you say you disagree with them calling them nazis. >> juan: i don't agree with anybody calling anybody nazi but i will tell you what republicans have to say about this. i think you need to hear it. the conservative "new york post" editorial page said mr. drum, don't send any troops to new york city.

tom ridge, michael chertoff, republicans, former heads of department of homeland security said today this is inappropriate behavior. former heads, republicans the department of homeland security. >> jesse: are you okay with the violence in chicago? >> juan: can you stop for a second? i am telling you ridge himself said today -- >> jesse: i don't care. >> juan: the dhs is not to become a presidential militia. defense secretary mark esper said he's worried about this action undermining americans' trust and love of the military because these men look like their u.s. military in a domestic situation. i want you, jesse, to take a look at this tape. the wall of mothers in oregon taking a stand against this frightful looking trump agent with their camouflage uniforms and unmarked vans. i want you to take a look at this navy veteran wearing a

t-shirt that says navy. he is being beaten, beaten by these men for what? for asking them, why aren't they abiding by their constitutional oath instead of coming out and this is really a horrible moment. i'm so glad local leaders and americans of all parties, republican and democrat, are taking a stand. >> jesse: i don't really think you know what you're talking about because the task force -- >> juan: you don't know what you're talking about -- >> jesse: atf agents and fbi agents. they are going over ballistics for illegal gang members firing weapons into crowds. they are looking into illegal guns on the streets. they are trying to solve crimes. they are trying to help people live without getting shot by gang members. kennedy, what do you think about the federal government coming into the cities, protecting federal property, resting anarchists, and trying to save

lives? >> kennedy: i understand that federal agents are trying to protect federal buildings and when they are doing it lawfully from within the confines of those buildings, making sure that they're not set ablaze with fireworks and molotov cocktails, that's okay. i do have a problem with the federal government sending in agents from the outside to do the job that local law enforcement is supposed to do. they are not doing it because of the mayors are following, not leading. my family still lives in oregon. my brother works in law enforcement just outside portland for a long time. you have a lot of these law enforcement officers who are absolutely exhausted because there isn't a curfew like you'd seen in places like minneapolis and new york and los angeles. we are going on two months straight of protest that turned into riots. if you are starting your protest

at 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. at sundown, then it's essentially a preriot. if you have a list of demands that you want, go ahead and make it an otherwise what you're doing is eclipsing a movement. you are lessening the memory of george floyd which is what you are reported to be doing in the first place. local law enforcement compass are not going to communicate with federal law enforcement, then they have to take hold of the situation middle schoolers through the months of curvy for people and it's not imposed by the federal government. >> jesse: those federal agents in every city looking after fugitives, trying to find child sex traffickers, going after illegal guns and trying to break up gangs. it astounds me that he will not understand that it's already happening. they are just trying to assist because these people can't do their jobs and i still can't believe juan would not condemn that these democrats are calling u.s. law enforcement nazis.

>> greg: the thing is it's really easy to disband a crime unit. it's really easy to mock police presence. it's really easy to reject government aid when it's not your problem. i guess we should listen to juan and nancy and take no for an answer. if portland doesn't want our help, let the cd go to hell if they want but i would wish somebody would come to help me because my problem was also a local problem. i don't want to belabor a book my neighborhood was attacked, assaulted and the damage i believe is permanent. true it was a local problem i call these problems are. atlanta, minneapolis, santa monica, seattle, portland, the bronx. all local problems, all abandoned by local politicians at all mocked by the media because the media doesn't live there. the media doesn't -- this is not their problem so they call it a

local problem. i had an epiphany that when somebody looks at lawlessness and says it's a local problem, you can do it to dismiss all bad behaviors from the smallest, not wearing a mask? local problem. vandalism, arson, local problem. gang violence, local problem. police brutality, local problem. how about slave labor? the uighurs, local problem. keep buying your nikes. you can see how it absolves the left of any moral judgment. they can dismiss anything and the reason why they do it, it's not that it's a local problem. it's that it's not their problem. so i say let them have it. let them have portland. let them see where it goes. they have destroyed liberal cities by becoming more and more liberal. let it go. inevitably people are going to have to move but when they move to nonliberal cities, don't bring your crap there. don't bring your stupid ideas in

your toxic ideology. the cities that don't meet it because you're going to ruin them too. >> kennedy: can i add something quickly? in los angeles it's interesting because when there's a local problem that's not being addressed and it something all of the mayors all the way down the west coast and beyond, is homelessness. eric garcetti here in los angeles is trying to appeal to the president for federal help for the local problem of homelessness. again when it's convenient, greg, is absolutely right. then they want federal aid. it's very hypocritical. >> jesse: president trump getting ready for another news conference at the white house. that's coming up very soon but next on "the five," joe biden is going all in embracing far left policies. will it cost him in november?

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♪ >> juan: the pressure from the progressive wing of the democratic party increasing on joe biden. possible vp pick atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms says senator bernie sanders is having an influence o on this year's dc platform. >> what i most appreciated about the composition on the platform committee is there was representation not just from the biden campaign but also from senator sanders' campaign. >> juan: the associated press is reporting that senator elizabeth warren is embracing her roll as a "key policy advisor" to the biden campaign. shannon, let me begin with you

and say biden has been in the public light for a long time. 40 plus years. people know him as a moderate. is it smart politics to portray him as the puppet of the left? >> shannon: it's certainly a conversation that's going on out there when you have people like senators warren and sanders saying that they are kind of calling the shots a little bit and pulling him to the left. these are people that you have to remember during the primary campaign he was calling them out as being so far left that it wouldn't work in the general election, essentially saying that the policies that they are advocating for sound angry and out of the mainstream. now he's adopting them. so i think at this point he's looking at the polls and he's got such a lead in with a lot of undecideds in these polls, but it kind of is feeling like i'm going to be the standard-bearer moving forward. i've been in washington for four decades and now i'm realizing there's people like congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez helping run the party.

i can't afford to lose those folks. i need their support so i'm going to cast a wide net. his position and change over the last year or so on the hyde amendment which bans federal tax dollars from funding abortions is a perfect example of how he has morphed but i think the primary field was sold far left if he wants to hold the party together he's going to have to adopt some of that although he's going to continue to be out there using the word moderate to describe himself. i'm not sure it's a match for some of his policies. >> juan: hey, greg, i was thinking about this. people talk about bernie sanders, he just heard the atlanta mayor saying he's having influence on the platform but the platform doesn't include medicare for all. there is no ban on fracking. there is no legal marijuana. there's nothing about free tuition. what do you make of it? >> greg: to that point, biden is very lucky that he appears to be a centrist against the

backdrop of portland and seattle and aoc and ilhan omar. the dems are the party of anarchy so anyone who can put on a clean pair of underwear is considered a moderate in the media enjoys the story because this isn't biden's biggest problem. it's not that he's changed politically in the last year. is that he's changed cognitively. you can see it happening. it's happening in real time, so the story about him becoming more left, they would rather talk about that then the sober reality that's in front of them. >> juan: hey, kennedy. i was looking at the numbers on campaign spending. says the trump campaign spent an enormous amount of money. 983 million, that's a record. still down in the polls. is it a bad sign for the trump campaign? >> kennedy: i don't know, man. i don't know how much weight to put in polls. i don't know if people are picking up the phone.

i know they have other things on their minds, whether or not they're going to send kids to school and how they're going to homeschool them if they're not learning in person. and they're picking up the phone talking to a pollster. having some bad, this is really -- having said that, this is really awful. they need right now marie kondo. they don't need layers of bureaucracy. all this money and deficit spending that's really irresponsible. need to figure out what sparks joy in their hearts and what sparks joy is freedom. freedom in terms of government is oftentimes economic freedom but when you have a trillion dollars in new spending, it crushes freedom because there is an adverse proportion between the size of government and the amount of freedom. freedom goes down when government goes up. it's awful. they need to throughout all of

this stuff. really get rid of it because it's a vile virus in its own. >> juan: jesse, having people like elizabeth warren, bernie sanders in the fold of unified democratic party, i'm wondering if that isn't smart. the president when after evangelicals on the far right. it worked for him. >> jesse: biden is getting rolled by burning. biden doesn't have an energized base so he went to bernie to kiss his ring but it's the kiss of death. biden has gone so far left of the primary he's never coming back and that's just going to be deadly. donald trump has turned it around the last ten days he's looked much crisper, much more focused. the people that have counted donald trump out, think about it. he ran through the bush dynasty and ran through these republicans in the primary. he beat the clinton dynasty, beat back the media. now no one believes a word out

of their mouth. he beat down comey, the witch hunt, impeachment. we had a tough time with the virus in the riots but to count donald trump out, who has been down before but always comes back and wins, i think it's foolish. until he loses, i think the smart money is on the president. >> juan: okay, we are awaiting a news conference from the president of the white house. coming up, former president obama taking aim at the president for his handling of the coronavirus. that's next for you on "the five." ♪

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president for his handling of the pandemic. house speaker nancy pelosi laying blame directly at the president's feet. >> it is a pandemic that has gotten worse before it will get better because of his inaction. clearly it is the trump virus. >> what you're saying is thousands of americans have died because of what the president has done or not done. is that what you are saying? >> yes, that's what i'm saying. it's clearly evident. >> shannon: teaming up with former president obama. >> can you imagine president saying i take no responsibility. >> those words didn't come out of our mouths while we were in office. >> shannon: let's talk about yesterday's briefing. they are saying president trump has taken no responsibility. we know that when he was doing

briefings before, his numbers were better so when he comes back, people say, i think "the new york times" said "bringing the briefings back is a tacit acknowledgment by him that he's not getting the job done that he's failing and it's terrible and bad news. >> greg: trump does exactly what his critics suggest he do and they still bash him which shows why you should not listen to them. pelosi mentioned his inaction. what the hell has she done? there is a huge portion of deaths in rest homes. if that had never happened, of the 140,000 deaths, we'd be having a different conversation would be more confident about what we're doing. i would guess an estimate of maybe half the deaths, you can fact-check me but i feel like it's about half were in rest homes. we know how that happened. the only people who deserve ridicule in this pandemic are the people who are criticizing actions by leaders now but who

never had any skin in the game. if you never have an opinion on travel, banning travel, or whether or not the shut down or whether or not to open up or not know much risk of community or society or community should bear, instead you wanted to wait for those decisions to be made by the leaders so you can then criticize it, you're disgusting because you know what? you know what it says about nancy pelosi? apparently she had all the answers but she never shared them. she never shared them with anybody so she waited until now to start talking about how bad things are. other than that, she obviously had all the answers, just like all the critics on cable news somehow had all the answers but they must've just been holding them back for so long. >> shannon: i went back to look at some of the criticism and tweets from former vice president biden. january 31st, president trump talked about the travel

restrictions. february 1st, the next day biden tweeted that the president was being hysterical. he was xenophobic and he was fearmongering. kennedy. >> kennedy: well, i think if joe biden and barack obama are teaming up, i think it's fair to go ahead and look back at the obama administration and how places like the cdc were essentially centralized someone a crisis like this hits, private labs and universities were unable to create their own testing kits which was critical for dealing with the response. they bear some of the responsibility and i wonder touch on something that nancy pelosi said. she is saying that the president single-handedly is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people because of his inaction or his missteps. what that means if one person is not powerful than we've concentrated concentrated way too much power into the

presidency. so who is in charge of the legislative branch? nancy pelosi. she's abdicated her power in the past and it's manifesting in the present if her worlds are to be believed and that's incredibly dangerous and irresponsible. >> shannon: 's juan, we have a disaster or crisis it often brings together people. people. we have a photo, china, they've not been honest. they have been busted, not telling us the truth. now we find out chinese hackers try to steal vaccine information. can americans be united about some kind of common thread that's gone on with china? >> juan: sure but remember the europeans had the same experience, shannon, and look

how much better the europeans have done in terms of coping with the virus. let's listen to the american people. let's get away from the spin for a second. it's pretty overwhelming. it's not just that the democrats think the president has done a bad job. he is underwater with seniors. he's underwater with conservatives. the facts are out there. he failed in terms of downplaying the severity of this. he was slow in terms of the masks even to this day. he is slow in terms of putting money out for the testing, insisting on testing. slow about tracing. those are the facts. anybody -- you don't need nancy pelosi to connect the dots but the facts in the dots are so close together that anybody can see a pattern and i think that's why you see people being so critical. >> shannon: let's bring jesse and because those things that juan mentioned, europe per capita has had a rougher time. when it comes to masks, dr. fauci was telling us a couple months ago that it wasn't

necessary and helpful to wear them. people have evolved in their positions as they burn for information and that includes the president. >> jesse: juan williams has said culling at the chinese virus is offensive but he's okay with nancy pelosi calling it the trump virus. way to go, juan. juan is so afraid of criticizing the communist chinese, we should call you red juan williams. red nancy too because she is too scared to call out china. what has nancy pelosi done? she didn't say anything about the travel ban. she left the chinese, everyone from wuhan come here, get in a big crowd in chinatown. let's drink and be merry. she let china come into our factories, stealing our secrets. she hasn't lifted a finger when china dumped fentanyl into this beautiful country so stop with the nonsense.

we have barack obama and joe biden about taking responsibility. i remember barack obama's first term, it was the bush economy. it wasn't his responsibility at all. it was george bush's fault, so save it. didn't barack obama stop testing for the swine flu? he said stop testing. they depleted all of the stockpiles. and shredded the testing program at the cdc. you know what, if you're a good liar and you're good at passing the buck, go into politics. great job for you. >> shannon: you guys. we got news from a federal study yesterday that -- >> jesse: i've got that going for me. >> shannon: we are moving forward now. federal study said more cases than we know. we are standing by for the

president to hold the news conference. we will take you there alive. next, greg's monologue on how social media warps the reality and fuels outrage.

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>> kennedy: welcome back. it's time for the fastest seven. first up, new york governor andrew cuomo cracking down on restaurants. they have found a way to poke fun on his restrictions on selling alcohol without food. a restaurant initially found a workaround by selling como chips. watch. >> we had to come up with something to remain compliant and also to kind of poke fun at the policy. it's been a little difficult but

there is a positive. >> kennedy: can't get enough of those. the state board said it wasn't enough so now the business of selling como chips and salsa. i love this america ingenuity. will capitalism save us from the pandemic with great ideas like this? >> jesse>> jesse: if cuomo is sg don't drink on an empty stomach, that silly thing they agree on. it's a good idea. just don't touch the alcohol. it's the only thing getting us to the pandemic. >> kennedy: a lot of these businesses will go out of business forever if they lose their liquor licenses. >> shannon: i love this because it's a country of entrepreneurs. we have built ourselves that way and we're going to have to rebuild ourselves that way. i love the people are getting so creative. i've seen it with restaurants and businesses all over here in

washington, d.c., who have found very creative ways to comply, to stay out of trouble. continue to have some kind of cash coming in. hats off to these guys. i understand they are doing flatbread pizzas. >> kennedy: sounds wonderful. sop up some of that booze. juan, we are hearing as many as a third of businesses including restaurants and bars are going to close because of the pandemic. have you seen anything like that, some of your favorite watering holes, have they closed down? if not, how has creativity saved them. >> juan: there's creativity with local governments opening street so they close the street and in the restaurant can put table in the middle of the street and serve people outdoors and they keep their business going that way. a quick comment on cuomo chips. it's a smart workaround is event saying but i worry and in all

seriousness about crowds at bars. i think it's a real threat to spread the virus. >> kennedy: but not protests. the virus is so smart it knows to stay away from protesters and really just attacks people who are being social. greg, the new kfc chicken's printer looking good. developing a machine that will 3d print chicken nuggets. kfc plans to test the technology in russia later this fall. what are they hiding in the nuggets? >> greg: i don't know. if i could build or create lab grown meat, i'm going as fast as i can. i wouldn't have copy chicken. we have enough chicken. i would've done something else or created my own kind of meat that has a feeling of roast beef

but taste like marshmallows. if you're in the lab, you're free to do whatever you want. >> kennedy: texture and taste. jesse, would you let your daughters eat printed nuggets? >> jesse: printers break so you're probably going to get half of it. can we test more things on the russian? let's go. i have a few things i'd like to test on those guys. >> kennedy: shannon, last word. >> shannon: i really do not understand how this happens that you press the button and food comes out of the printer. i don't know that i'm going to be up for that because it is supposed to come out, they say come with breading and spaces on it. i can't even reload my ink cartridges. i have no idea how this is going to work. >> kennedy: that's a great point. how do you get the chicken in the printer cartridge. we are awaiting president trump

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>> greg: president trump will be taking the podium any minute. wonder where he's going to take it? people who use social media the most are the worst people in the universe. a new study tracking snapchat and facebook use found that the heaviest users tend to enjoy upsetting and embarrassing other people and are motivated by cruelty and personal gain. sounds about right. when i get off social media, i rarely feel better than i did when i got on perhaps because we not only run into creeps more frequently, we also can control the encounters. maybe i am the creep. i believe i'm a better person here than there which is hard to believe which leads the good news. the outside world is indeed a better place than the net. except portland. in general all people are better here than online. far more of them are wearing clothes. we do ourselves no good to think twitter reflects planet earth. look at what happens to the idiots who do.

politicians view twitter as an instant poll. if they see extremism online, they moved there. twitter becomes their gps. the media does the same thing. it's "the new york times" entire profit model. young minds find themselves more affected by opinions of online strangers than their loving parents. maybe that's why so many young unstable unemployed adults find joy in destroying property, communities, careers, lives in alternately themselves. they get a head start online an end then on the street they let her in vandalism and arson. suggesting you should avoid social media doesn't mean it will avoid you. turning it off doesn't make the mob disappeared. if everyone else including your employer takes them seriously. until that stops, we are totally screwed. we've got to be super brief. do you believe this study, jesse? >> jesse: i do and i can tell you right now that every time i go on twitter i only find out

trump is either senile, racist, evil, doesn't believe in science and wants to your children or -- or kanye might have said something bananas. i check it once in the morning and i check it right at 6:00 to see if i have said anything controversial i need to apologize for. >> greg: that's all it is. to see if you're going to be canceled. it's a cancel thermometer. >> shannon: as you said, it's not the real world. i think the president is getti getting -- >> president trump: reached a historic agreement to produce and deliver 100 million doses of their vaccine immediately following its approval. hopefully the approval process will go very quickly and we think we have a winter there. we also think we have other companies right behind that are doing very well on the vaccines.

long ahead of schedule. as part of operation warp speed this agreement will also ensure that we receive an additional 500 million doses shortly thereafter. this is another crucial step in our effort to develop manufacturer and distributor vaccine in record-breaking time. really a very small fraction of the time based on previous schedules. i want to think the fda. i want to thank everybody involved. it's been an incredible process. as discussed yesterday that china virus poses the greatest threat to our senior citizens, as we all know. the median age for those who died from the viruses 78 years old and nearly half of the deaths have occurred among those living in nursing homes or long-term care facilities. that's really something. in other words, approximately half of the fatalities have occurred among less than 1% of the u.s. population, so think of that.

less than 1%. half the fatalities. so we know what to look for. from the beginning we have made it our top priority to shelter our seniors. in early march we announce guidelines suspending all medically unnecessary visits to nursing homes and prioritized resources for those facilities. we gave it a very strong priority. fema has sent shipments to many different locations of protective equipment and it's going to 15,400 medicaid and medicare certified nursing homes throughout the country. today i'd like to provide an update on the additional actions we've been able to take, and they've been very constructive. first we are requiring increased testing of the nursing home personnel in states where you have the worst outbreaks. all personnel will be tested at the highest level.

we are distributing 15,000 rabid point-of-care diagnostic devices to support this effort. these are the tests where it takes 5 minutes to 15 minutes, very accurate and very good. we are sending them all over the country. over 600 devices will be also shipped this week to additional facilities. second, hhs will be distributing an additional $5 million from the provider relief fund to all nursing homes. nursing homes in higher risk areas will be receiving more funding. this money can be used to address critical needs including the hiring of additional staff, increasing testing, and providing technology supports so residents can connect their families and they can connect to their families. they are having a tremendous time. they want to be with their loved ones. they can't do it's what we are doing is we are working it so that we can connect, have them connect with their families.

if they're not able to visit. third, we find identifying especially high-risk nursing homes and sharing that information with the governors so that the governors and their staffs can take appropriate action. we are able to find because of the testing programs and other means, we are able to find certain areas that are very high risk and the governors can then take action. additionally cms, cdc and the u.s. public health service are providing enhanced tactical assistance and support including visits to the highest risk nursing homes and that's their priority right now. nursing homes with the highest risk. cms and cdc are implementing a national training program focused on infection control for those nursing homes that need it most. and we have them surveyed and we have them mostly pinpointed. over the past few months, we've created a surveillance system to detect outbreaks and currently 99% of all nursing homes are

reporting directly to it. we have great data. when a nursing home has three or more cases, we alert the state and make sure that it responds very quickly. we check on it and make sure they respond very quickly. i want to send a message of support and hope to every senior citizen who has been dealing with the struggle of isolation in what should be the golden years of your life. we will get to the other end of the tunnel very quickly we help. the light is starting to shine. we will get there very quickly. but we send our love. we send a message of love, very important. we are with you all the way. as far as the outbreak in the sun belt, i said yesterday we continue to vigorously combat the rise of cases in the south and southwest and west. we are closely monitoring and aggressively acting to control the infection in texas, arizona, california, florida. arizona is starting to come

down. done a very good job. they're all doing a good job. they are very talented people. there are likely a number of causes for the spike in infections. cases started to rise among young american shortly after demonstrations which you know very well about. which presumably triggered a broader relaxation of mitigation efforts nationwide and a substantial increase in travel. increased gatherings on holidays such as memorial day as well as young people closely congregating at bars and probably other places, maybe beaches. four are five different listed places. we have 12 listed on the guide. likely also contributed. also sharing a 2,000-mile border with mexico as we know very well, and cases are surging in mexico unfortunately. it's a big problem for mexico.

cases are surging very sharply and all across the rest of the western hemisphere. 257 miles of newly constructed wall along the southern border has had a great positive impact on people coming in, and we have record low numbers of people coming in illegally. that's helped greatly. it was really meant for a different purpose but it worked out very well for what we are doing right now and for the pandemic. nationwide down the outbreak in several states, cases remain low and very stable. 19 states have positive test rates of less than 5%. eight states have positive test rates of less than 2%. our nationwide positive test rate is beginning to decline and is currently at 8.8% compared to over 16% at its peak in april. it's coming down. it's coming down fairly rapidly. today we surpassed, first time we surpassed 50 million tests.

that's far more than any country in the world. india is second we believe, we think. 1.4 billion people. that's about 12 million tests. we have 50 million tests. we are working with every state to ensure the supply of remdesivir for early case intervention and steroid treatment and various other treatments for those that are seriously ill. we are working very closely with hospitals, doctors, nursing homes, everybody. the remdesivir has proven to be terrific. our case fatality rate continues to decline. we want to push this rate even lower. the therapeutic research continues daily on new and very promising treatments, including antibody treatments and the use of blood thinners and steroids. a lot of different things are happening and a lot of things are coming out that we wouldn't have known a number of months

ago. we are doing tremendously well on therapeutic research and tremendously well on the vaccines and frankly therapeutically or maybe a word even beyond that word is cure would be the best of all and we'll see what happens. that would be great if we could go into the hospital and just cure people. they are at a position where we are actually able to a certain extent with what we have right now and we think in a very short period of time we'll be able to do that. our strategy is to shelter the highest risk americans while allowing younger and healthier citizens to return to work or school while being careful and very vigilant. wear a mask, socially distance and repeatedly wash your hands. practice very, very good sanitary means. you have to do this. you have to look at it differently. wash your hands often. i am finding more and more people are saying wash your hands. so wash your hands.

we want young americans to avoid packed bars and other crowded indoor gatherings and we are all in this together and as americans, we are going to get this complete. we are going to do it properly. we've been doing it properly. sections of the country come up that we didn't anticipate, for instance florida, texas, et cetera. but we are working with very talented people, very brilliant people, and it's all going to work out. and it is working out. so with that, i'll take a few questions please. >> reporter: i wanted to ask a question about the surge of federal agents in various cities. the mayor of chicago said moments ago that you are doing this to divert attention from failures on coronavirus. you are only targeting cities run by democrats. is it a coincidence? >> president trump: the city's unfortunately that are in trouble are all r